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Tom Carper: “If we look at our budget deficit that we face, from the years 2001 to 2008 we racked up as much new debt in those 8…”

On the recordMay 25, 2010
If we look at our budget deficit that we face, from the years 2001 to 2008 we racked up as much new debt in those 8 years as we did in, I think, the previous 208 years of our Nation's history.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware
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Editor's note · Context

Senator Carper highlights the significant increase in national debt over a recent eight-year period.

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